Fire Ant Colony Vs. Molten Aluminium

[Tasdik]

So cool.

[Ganja]

First the Florida post, now this. Did you recently join reddit?

[Tasdik]

Actually, no.

Florida post came over my FB, my brother sent it to me.

This I saw while looking through my news feed.

**** reddit.

[CrimsonNuker]

[Mayumi]

Like that Anthill art Tas,

[poehalcho]

[ltsune]

What is really amazing is that the guy is selling those "sculptures" for more than $2.000 on Ebay!

[*BlackFox]

Cool.. It kind of looks like a Christmas tree. lulz

[.curve]

I remember seeing this a while ago somewhere. Pretty neat idea.

[Gaigemasta]

just imagine being in NYC and then suddenly molten aluminium just starts flooding everything.

[.curve]

At least it would be a quick death.

[BuDo]

Cool piece of art but not worth the means of how to obtain it in my opinion.....

[Gaigemasta]

Expected

An abstract metal sculpture has become a Youtube sensation after the artist posted a video showing how it had been created - by pouring molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Although the resulting work - an intricately layered and intertwining piece - is quite beautiful, not everyone has been impressed.

“I disabled comments because I'm sick of your bickering,” the anonymous artist wrote on Youtube, where the video has now received over 7 million views.

“Also, I couldn't get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted “What if I poured aluminium in your house” for the 100th time.”

On the artist’s website there is a further selection of fire ant sculptures, as well as a number of examples created through carpenter ant colonies.

The pieces are sold through eBay.

Fire ants are by no means man's best friend - their stings are extremely painful, even deadly, and the insects are estimated to cost the US economy around $1 billion per year through the damage they can cause.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 03789.html

[*BlackFox]

molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Damn.. I haven't thought of it that way.

[omier]

Next they'll start pouring thermite down a termite mound.

[BuDo]

Expected

An abstract metal sculpture has become a Youtube sensation after the artist posted a video showing how it had been created - by pouring molten aluminium directly into a fire ant colony mound.

Although the resulting work - an intricately layered and intertwining piece - is quite beautiful, not everyone has been impressed.

“I disabled comments because I'm sick of your bickering,” the anonymous artist wrote on Youtube, where the video has now received over 7 million views.

“Also, I couldn't get YouTube to stop sending me an email every time someone posted “What if I poured aluminium in your house” for the 100th time.”

On the artist’s website there is a further selection of fire ant sculptures, as well as a number of examples created through carpenter ant colonies.

The pieces are sold through eBay.

Fire ants are by no means man's best friend - their stings are extremely painful, even deadly, and the insects are estimated to cost the US economy around $1 billion per year through the damage they can cause.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 03789.html

What sort of ecological balance/food chain dependency these fire ants provide that this biased article isn't acknowledging?...

[CrimsonNuker]

BUT THE ANTS, THINK OF THE ANTS!

[inky]

For this day shall be reckoned in Ant history as The Great Searing. It is the first time our kind has seen so much horrific destruction brought about by such a weapon. This day shall live in infamy. Today we shall mourn for those we have lost: soldiers, workers, the queen and all her subjects -- murdered in cold blood. But tomorrow, we shall rise against our enemy and they will feel our wrath!

[Tasdik]

Lmao.

[*BlackFox]

ROFL @inky Well, That Just might come true! xD

[I Am Vegeta]

that's nice and major loling @ petabeta